Young Designers to Watch

Cynthia Nordstrom
Residence: Chatham, NJ
Position/title: Freelance costume designer
Current project(s): Evil Dead the Musical at New Stages in New York (with co-director/choreographer Hinton Battle and set designer David Gallo)
Most notable achievements: Peter Pan's Neverland spectacular at Universal Studios Japan; contract costume designer for five years at Walt Disney World at age 23; the period costumes in Silent Laughter (off-Broadway) on a very tight budget.
How I got into this ...